G Sumner Hayes wrote:>> Why add it to lilo? Why not have a graphics viewer throw up the> screen while your init scripts run? Just put it first in your rc> scripts. Certainly not as nice as the lilo hack, but a lot easier to> implement quickly. You'd still see the kernel messages, but the init> messages would be hidden from the end user.

Implemented the day before yesterday on my system :-)

My monosync monitor doesn't show anything until X starts. (First thing in /etc/rc.d/rc.S: even before fsck) First thingthat happens next is that I tile the pinguin on the root windowbehind the "xconsole" that shows the rest of the boot messages.....